>>-----Original Message----->From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net>>To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>>Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 4:30 PM>Subject: Re: Nanorgasm>>>>We, as a culture, have hardly begun to explore the sexual>>possibilities of even conventional technologies. This is>>an area ripe for research. Other than a few chemicals and>>a few electrical gadgets and a few operations, there's>>really not been much progress in the area in decades.>>>>It seems to me that after a certain amount of time, sexual pleasure will be>obsolete, due to greater advances in neural science. Not only is it not>productive ( wow... what an incredible unintentional pun) in our current>society, it can and will be superceded by greater methods of pleasure. Even>today, for a lot of heroin users sex pales in comparison to the purely>chemical high. Who knows what's coming next?>>I'm reminded of the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade (I noticed>some roll-playing buffs on this list) where the immortal (see a parallel,>anyone?) vampires have replaced the lust for sex with the far more powerful>lust for human blood, which is the sustenance of the species.>>Might we be doing ourselves a favor to somehow link physical pleasure with>that by which will sustain ourselves in the future?>>-Eric>